Which putter suits my stroke?
Tell us how you stroke the putter, and which alignment aid you like. We show the three putters our free fitting ranks first for you, with the reasons behind each.
- Our top threeputters for your stroke, best first
- The reasonstoe hang, alignment aid and head, in plain words
- Launch priceswith a link to each putter
Free. No account. No model writes the answer: it is the ranking’s own list.
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How it works
One ranking, used everywhere on the site.
This list comes from the same ranking as our full fitting. Your stroke, alignment aid, handicap and budget go in, each putter in our catalog gets a match score out of 100 with the reasons behind it, and the three highest are shown. There is no model and no rule of our own on this page: it asks only for the answers the putter ranking reads.
The score is how well a putter’s design fits your stroke. It can’t see how a putter feels in your hands or how you roll the ball, so treat it as a short list to try. Prices shown are launch prices from our catalog, not today’s.
How do I know my putting stroke?
Watch the path of the putter head. If it moves straight back and straight through along the line, that is a straight-back-and-through stroke. If it swings a little inside on the way back and returns to the ball, that is a slight arc. If it swings clearly inside and curves round, that is a strong arc. A phone video taken from behind you, looking down the line, shows it well. If you cannot tell, choose “Not sure”: the ranking then looks for the most forgiving toe hang, a face-balanced or quarter toe hang.
What is toe hang?
Toe hang is how far the toe of a putter drops when you balance the shaft on a finger. A face-balanced putter stays level, with the face pointing straight up. A putter with more toe hang lets the toe drop, and our catalog lists it as quarter, half, three-quarter or full. Our ranking reads it as the main match to your stroke: it is the biggest single part of a putter's score, worth up to 25 of the 75 points a putter can earn.
Which toe hang suits which stroke?
These are the rules our ranking uses. A straight-back-and-through stroke looks for a face-balanced putter first and accepts a quarter toe hang. A slight arc looks for a quarter or half toe hang first and accepts face-balanced or three-quarter. A strong arc looks for a three-quarter or full toe hang first and accepts half. If you are not sure, it looks for face-balanced or quarter. A putter with a toe hang outside those scores nothing on this part, and one with no toe hang listed gets a neutral score.
Do the alignment aid, handicap and budget change the answer?
Yes, a little each. If you name an alignment aid (a single line, several lines, dots or a circle, or no line), a putter that matches it earns up to 15 points; with no preference the aid scores nothing. From a handicap of 15 up, mallet heads score higher than blades, as a soft preference smaller than the stroke. A budget limits the list to putters priced at or under the top of that band. Putter prices shown are launch prices from our catalog, not today’s.